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Asset Name:
E002550 - O'Neill, Thomas (1912 - 2000)
Title:
O'Neill, Thomas (1912 - 2000)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E002550
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-06-28

2014-06-27
Description:
Obituary for O'Neill, Thomas (1912 - 2000), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
O'Neill, Thomas
Date of Birth:
22 May 1912
Place of Birth:
County Cork
Date of Death:
2000
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BCh BAO NUI 1935

MD 1938

FRCS 1941

MCh 1944

FRCSI 1961
Details:
Tom O'Neill was a general surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He was born on 22 May 1912 near Newmarket, County Cork, and attended Presentation College, Cork, and then University College, Cork, where he studied medicine. He qualified in 1935. After house posts, he went to England. He trained at Halifax Royal Infirmary and was a surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service in London in the Second World War, working through the Blitz. He was then a resident surgical officer and surgical chief assistant at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1949 he became a consultant surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin. At the time, his appointment caused controversy: it was then unheard of for a Catholic surgeon to be appointed to a Protestant hospital. He stayed at the hospital until his retirement in 1977. He was also a lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. He wrote mainly on partial gastrectomy for peptic ulcer, for which he invented a useful modification. He was president of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland from 1988 to 1990. He was also retained by leading insurers as a medical expert. Outside medicine, he played hurling as a student, and then golf later on. In 1945 he married Dorothy Moriarty, who was also a doctor. They had five sons. Tom O'Neill died in 2000.
Sources:
O'Donnell, B. *Irish surgeons and surgery in the twentieth century* Dublin, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2008
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002500-E002599
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